New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Subtitle E - Office of Children and Family Services
Part 181 - Warrants And Awol's-policies And Procedures
Section 181.7 - Procedure when a youth on whom a warrant has been issued has been found
Universal Citation: 9 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 181.7
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) If a youth comes into or is brought to the office of a youth service team worker or is located at home or elsewhere by a Division for Youth worker:
(1) a youth who is an adjudicated juvenile
delinquent must be taken personnaly to the local nonsecure or secure detention
center or to the facility from which the youth absconded;
(2) a youth who is an adjudicated person in
need of supervision must be personally taken to nonsecure detention or returned
to the facility from which he/she absconded (see section
181.10
of this Part on travel arrangements for return to facility and section
181.14
of this Part for information about nonsecure detention); and
(3) detention facilities shall not hold
AWOL's more than 72 hours.
(b) If a youth is found by the police or Division for Youth transfer agents:
(1) the
director of the facility or program from which the youth was AWOL shall be
notified immediately;
(2) a youth
who is an adjudicated juvenile delinquent and placed in a title III facility or
voluntary agency must be taken to the local detention center or to the
facility, if possible. If the youth is foud in an area which is remote from a
detention center or the facility, the facility director shall be contacted. The
facility director shall make arrangements to pick up the youth. The home
district supervisor may be contacted for assistance; and
(3) a youth who is an adjudicated juvenile
delinquent and placed in a title II facility or voluntary agency or an
adjudicated person in need of supervision must be taken to the local youth
service team office so that arrangements may be made for the return of the
youth to the facility from which he/she absconded. Whenever the youth service
team office is closed (e.g., weekends, holidays, after 5 p.m. on weekdays),
these youth must be taken to the place designated by the district supervisor or
regional director for the handling of emergencies during times in which offices
are closed.
(c) If a youth is found by a facility or facility worker, the youth must be returned to the facility from which he/she absconded.
(d) After a youth has been found, warrants must be withdrawn from the local or State police office in which they were filed.
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